> "By building all these levels of abstractions we forgot that web is really asynchronous" Uhh... nope. No one forgot that. Least of all the people he's chidin

> "By building all these levels of abstractions we forgot that web is really asynchronous" Uhh... nope. No one forgot that. Least of all the people he's chiding. Any decent Javascript / Front End Dev is acutely aware of this. Overall, this is perhaps the most unpersuasive clickbait I've read in a long time. It is amusing, though, to see a Java dev complain that REST isn't enterprisey enough. That's not a negative, good sir, that's a selling point.